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Epic exoplanet 55 EP

KELT-12 b

RA 267.6405° · Dec 36.5702° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 7 badges
55 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Lava world +14
  • Puffy low-density world +12
  • Tidally locked +10
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
  • Blasted by starlight +4
Total score 55

23 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Lava world · +14
  • Tidally locked · +10
  • Puffy low-density world · +12
  • Blasted by starlight · +4

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Lava world. Its surface is almost certainly an ocean of molten rock, kept liquid by the star it hugs.

Hard to believe

  • It would float. It is less dense than water. Drop it in a big enough ocean and the whole world would bob on the surface.

What it actually is

  • Hugging its star. It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.
  • What it is made of. Lighter than Neptune — a puffed-up ball of hydrogen and helium with no surface anywhere on it to stand on.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Far away by human standards, yet still a local address inside the Milky Way's spiral arms.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 10.6 you'll want a small backyard telescope.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around June — that's when to go looking.

Properties

density gcc
0.209
diameter km
254511.9575
discovery facility
KELT-North
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2017
dist ly
1200.3519
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
1800
host star teff
6279
inclination
84.47
insolation
1749
mag
10.585
mass earth
301.9385
name
KELT-12 b
orbital period days
5.0316
radius earth
19.952
semi major au
0.0671
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1
tidally locked
yes
tidally locked inferred
yes

About KELT-12 b

KELT-12 b is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 1,200.4 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 10.59, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,800 K and spans roughly 19.95 Earth radii.

Its surface is almost certainly an ocean of molten rock, kept liquid by the star it hugs.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 10.59, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, KELT-12 b is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.

Why KELT-12 b is an epic exoplanet

KELT-12 b scores 55 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 23 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 7 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Gas giant, Lava world, Tidally locked, Puffy low-density world and Blasted by starlight — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.